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July 03, 2008 at 2:06PM AKST
A parade through town and a bevy of other activities highlight the schedule for Bethel’s Independence Day celebration, entitled “Happy Birthday Alaska! 50 Years Old.”
full story »July 03, 2008 at 12:01PM AKST
The 2008-09 Alaska high school sports calendar kicks off in earnest later this month with the start of football, football cheerleading and tennis seasons.
full story »July 03, 2008 at 11:53AM AKST
One of Alaska’s aviation legends will get a new lease on life this summer.
full story »July 03, 2008 at 11:52AM AKST
Sen. Lisa Murkowski on June 26 introduced legislation that would provide commercial fishermen a temporary income tax credit to help them offset the high cost of fuel.
full story »July 03, 2008 at 11:47AM AKST
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on June 25 approved legislation sponsored by Sens. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, to replace Alaska and Hawaii federal employee cost-of-living allowances with the locality pay system that has long been in place in the Lower 48.
full story »June 26, 2008 at 2:42PM AKST
A parade through town and a bevy of other activities highlight the schedule for Bethel’s Independence Day celebration, entitled “Happy Birthday Alaska! 50 Years Old.”
full story »June 26, 2008 at 2:41PM AKST
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services have agreed that YKHC will keep its youth emergency shelter and short-term treatment services open in Bethel until Sept. 30.
full story »June 26, 2008 at 2:40PM AKST
The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities issued an emergency regulation halting rural airport rent increases implemented earlier this year.
full story »June 26, 2008 at 2:29PM AKST
A check of Bob Herron’s background provides ample evidence of experience in Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta politics.
full story »June 26, 2008 at 2:28PM AKST
The Calista Elders Council received an $8,658 grant last week from the Alaska State Council on the Arts to support the Yupiit Yurayarait Dance Festival scheduled for November in Pilot Station, according to council officials.
full story »June 26, 2008 at 10:26AM AKST
The Russian Orthodox Church in America retired former Alaska diocese Bishop Nikolai Soraich Tuesday, May 13 after its Holy Synod of bishops investigated allegations he behaved insensitively in regards to Alaska Native culture and responded insufficiently to a priest’s report of sexual misconduct by one of his assistants.
full story »June 19, 2008 at 3:39PM AKST
What is student success? Is success knowing one’s culture and language? Is it having a strong Yup’ik identity? Is success being able to pass standardized exams? Or is success being able to succeed in the modern world?
full story »June 19, 2008 at 3:37PM AKST
High school educators from Alaska and five other Northwest states attended a one-day conference in Seattle late last month and were told dropout rates for minority students, especially Native Americans and Alaska Natives, sit at crisis levels.
full story »June 19, 2008 at 3:36PM AKST
Looks like the fish are starting to trickle in, and everybody who’s got a boat is either on the river already or headed that way.
full story »June 19, 2008 at 3:30PM AKST
Bethel’s police force has muscled up in recent weeks, increasing to eight officers after coming close to disappearing, its new police chief said.
full story »June 19, 2008 at 3:19PM AKST
Last week’s finalization of GCI’s multimillion-dollar purchase of communication subsidiaries of United Companies Inc. apparently didn’t send Hooper Bay residents into frenzy.
full story »June 12, 2008 at 3:02PM AKST
Prompted by the call of tribal leaders in the region, Bethel’s Tony Vaska confirmed on June 2 he’s vying for the House District 38 seat in the state Legislature.
full story »June 12, 2008 at 2:59PM AKST
Eighteen months have passed, but no arrests have been made and no charges have been brought in the high-profile slayings of a Korean cab driver and an Alaska Native woman in Bethel.
full story »June 09, 2008 at 3:35PM AKST
The body of an Atmautluak man was found in a river Sunday, a day after his unoccupied boat was spotted still in gear with the motor running after having run aground, according to Alaska State Troopers and the Anchorage Daily News.
full story »June 09, 2008 at 3:13PM AKST
The search for the body of a 2-year old boy who earlier this month fell into the Kanektok River about four miles north of Quinhagak continued into its ninth day Monday, Alaska State Troopers said.
full story »June 05, 2008 at 3:56PM AKST
All things being equal, lifelong Emmonak resident Anna Lee considered this season’s breakup somewhat subdued.
full story »June 02, 2008 at 3:36PM AKST
Prompted by the call of tribal leaders in the region, Bethel’s Tony Vaska confirmed Monday he’s vying for the House District 38 seat in the state Legislature.
full story »May 29, 2008 at 12:21PM AKST
A funny thing happened to Diane McEachern as she studied the textbook she’ll be teaching with during the summer’s Human Services Associate of Applied Science cohort program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
full story »May 29, 2008 at 12:05PM AKST
The Bethel Kuskokwim Campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks will be closed for two weeks during June 9-20 to complete a renovation project begun last year.
full story »May 29, 2008 at 12:03PM AKST
Despite facing competition that had more matches under its seasonal belt, the Bethel Freestyle Wrestling Club managed to nab 20 top-three finishes during the 2008 Alaska USA Wrestling State Championships in Wasilla earlier this month.
full story »May 29, 2008 at 10:31AM AKST
Congress has passed a resolution directing the United States to negotiate an international agreement for managing fish stocks in the Arctic Ocean.
full story »May 29, 2008 at 10:23AM AKST
Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would accept tribal photo identification cards, Canadian Indian and Northern Affairs cards as valid identification as the department institutes new procedures to identify passengers on domestic flights within the United States.
full story »May 29, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor DNA testing during Celebration 2008, which runs from June 5-7, to determine if a young Alaska Native man who lived 10,300 years ago has living descendants in Southeast.
full story »May 22, 2008 at 4:06PM AKST
May 22, 2008 at 2:40PM AKST
Shortly before the year’s first fuel barge arrived in Dillingham last week — an event that pushed some of the nation’s highest fuel prices even higher — customers crowded the filling station at Delta Western.
full story »May 22, 2008 at 11:47AM AKST
May 15, 2008 at 1:05PM AKST
Since 1998, local youth have helped monitor salmon returns at the George and Tatlawiksuk River weir projects through the Kuskokwim Native Association’s fisheries high school internship program.
full story »May 15, 2008 at 1:03PM AKST
For two weeks Scammon Bay School had two visitors: Raphael and Vivian Jimmy. Both were raised in Nunam Iqua (Sheldon Point) and live in Mountain Village.
While visiting Scammon Bay School, Raphael and Vivian talked with students from grades kindergarten to 12 about their Yup’ik culture.
May 15, 2008 at 1:01PM AKST
Presidential candidates aren’t the only ones offering tax relief in the face of rising prices.
full story »May 15, 2008 at 1:00PM AKST
If a spring blizzard miraculously pounds the East Coast during the Boston Marathon, you should put your money on Sam Crow.
full story »May 15, 2008 at 10:34AM AKST
A fundraising effort is under way to help bring an Alaska Native play from Fairbanks to Anchorage for performances at the Alaska Federation of Native convention in October.
The play, “The Winter Bear,” opens on May 22 with performances through May 24 at Salisbury Theatre in the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Fine Arts Complex.
May 15, 2008 at 10:24AM AKST
John Shively, recently appointed chief executive officer of Pebble Limited Partnership, visited the Bristol Bay region’s communities of Iliamna and Newhalen on April 22-23.
Iliamna serves as the headquarters for site operations and is about 17 miles northeast of the Pebble deposit. I was asked by my manager at Iliamna Development Corp. to ask Shively a few questions while he was in town.
May 09, 2008 at 11:27AM AKST
Three winners emerged from the fourth annual Twisted River Festival competition ceremonies in Bethel last week.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:27AM AKST
May 09, 2008 at 11:27AM AKST
Nicole Alek’aq Colbert, a 23-year-old Yup’ik from Napakiak, won the Miss Indian World pageant held April 22-26 in conjunction with the Gathering of Nations PowWow at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Along with the crown, Colbert captured the awards for best traditional presentation and best essay and was named Miss Congeniality. Last year, Colbert won the Miss World Eskimo-Indian Olympics Pageant.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:27AM AKST
Partnering with RuralCap, the Association of Village Council Presidents’ Housing Authority has plans to upgrade and finish weatherization projects in a number of homes in villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta this year.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:27AM AKST
Nine Head Start program professionals from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta graduated with college degrees of certification credentials, according to officials at the Rural Alaska Community Action Program, or RurAL CAP.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:27AM AKST
The Bethel Police Department received a report at 10:20 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, of a 3-month-old baby not breathing at a residence on Ptarmigan Street.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Just in from Shishmaref science teacher Ken Stenek: On this late April day, two house sparrows are singing their little hearts out while perched on the metal roof of the Shishmaref School.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Alaska Positive 2008, a statewide photography-as-art exhibition organized every two years by the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, opened with a reception on Friday, May 2.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Seventeen Alaska and Canada Natives have been linked by DNA to an ancient man whose remains were found in 1999 in a glacier.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
The best defensive weapon of choice for Alaska Native cancer survivors is a return to traditional subsistence food.
full story »May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
It’s hard to account for a work force if you don’t know who or where it is. full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:13AM AKST
A top official in the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Alaska blasted priests who hope to overthrow the bishop, calling some "paranoid" and overly fearful because they’re battling alcoholism.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:13AM AKST
A graying woman with 15 grandchildren walked the cold streets of Bethel in March until her fingers turned blue and a chest cold flared – all in an effort to gather signatures to oust the mayor and vice-mayor.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:13AM AKST
The Alaska Energy Authority will host Energy Plan Town Hall meetings in Bethel, Aniak and McGrath in May in an effort to reduce the cost of energy in Alaska. >
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:13AM AKST
Bethel continues to post some of the nation’s highest rates of a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to miscarriages in women and sterility in men.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:13AM AKST
Willie Fitka started working in a store when he was a student at Sitka’s Mount Edgecumbe High School. As a cashier, he rang up his classmates’ purchases at the student store.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:13AM AKST
More than 80 Bethel children showed up to register for school during Mikelnguut Elitnaurviat and Ayaprun Elitnaurvik’s kindergarten round-up on April 22.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:13AM AKST
The Hooper Bay Alaska Subsistence ATV Trail Project Partnership is one of 21 recipients nationwide to win the Department of the Interior’s Cooperative Conservation Award.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:13AM AKST
Ace Air Cargo has named Greg Hawthorne as the new director of sales and marketing, based in Anchorage.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Twenty summers ago, earthquakes rocked the town of King Cove on the Alaska Peninsula. Some people were so worried that the nearby volcano, Mount Dutton, was going to erupt that they caught flights out of town. Others called in the cavalry – members of the fledgling Alaska Volcano Observatory.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Families welcomed home soldiers of the 297th Support Battalion at the Alaska National Guard Armory on Fort Richardson upon their return from Iraq on April 24.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Alisa Gilbert is committed to bringing quality health care to Alaska Natives
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The 2008 Alaska legislative session might be a near wrap, but several new "fish laws" are still moving at a good clip through Congress.
full story »May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The Alaska Energy Authority has begun a sequence of meetings it will present in 25 communities around the state with the goals of hearing what Alaskans know about local energy resources and asking how they think those resources can be developed to lower energy costs.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 11:31AM AKST
The Kuskokwim 300 has announced a fundraising drive that involves selling miles along the K300 trail.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 11:31AM AKST
Even from inside the cockpit of an airplane, federal hydrologists can measure the depth of snow in the big landscape below them. They measure the snowpack every month throughout the winter, at a number of fixed "rulers" planted across Alaska.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 11:31AM AKST
This spring, Danny Mann will be on the front lines of the avian influenza surveillance effort in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 10:08AM AKST
Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation has created a memorial fund in honor of Mindy Schloss, a long-time health care worker who served village clinics throughout the state.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:56AM AKST
Cathy Cahill got a package in the mail last week from a desert on the other side of the world. She didn’t know what was inside, but she hoped it was air samples from Baghdad. When she opened the package, she didn’t believe her eyes.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:55AM AKST
The Alaska Army National Guard transformation ceremony from the 207th Infantry Group (Scout) to the 297th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (Scout) and 38th Troop Command took place Sunday, April 13, at Buckner Physical Fitness Center on Fort Richardson.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
The 25th Annual Rural Providers Conference is set for June 2-6 in Glennallen.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
An educational program that teaches the use of traditional foods to boost health among Alaska Natives has received its own boost in funds.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, welcomed the arrival of their fifth child on Friday, April 18, in Anchorage.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
High fuel prices have idled 20 percent of Kodiak’s trawl fleet and hundreds of local seafood workers. full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
During the 2008 Alaska Press Club journalism awards banquet in Anchorage on Saturday, four out of six weekly newspapers owned by Alaska Newspapers won awards.
full story »April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
Alaska residents can pick up a little piece of the state at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Spring 2008 Alaska State Land Offering.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 10:31AM AKST
Move over, bar-tailed godwit.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 10:31AM AKST
In Emmonak, where the state will soon deposit $137,000 in city coffers, bean counters know exactly where to spend it: the wholesale fuel dealer.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 10:31AM AKST
The Quinhagak Head Start doesn’t yet have a new home.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 10:31AM AKST
A new summer college offering in ethnobotany begins this summer in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 10:31AM AKST
More than a year after Lime Village tribal officials alerted authorities to the alleged embezzlement of $43,000, law enforcement and federal officials have yet to investigate the case.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Efforts are under way to build a gravel road that could help an imperiled Western Alaska village move to higher ground.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
BP and ConocoPhillips have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline, according to a written statement from the companies.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Three Alaskans received the American Hospital Association’s Award for Volunteer Excellence, which recognizes work for the Alaska Native Medical Center, in particular gathering its museum-quality art collection.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Some news from the Alaska Bird Conference, held this spring in Fairbanks:
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Alaska residents can pick up a little piece of the state at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Spring 2008 Alaska State Land Offering.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
CAMP DENALI – Members of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Air Refueling Wing welcomed their new commander, Col. Donald "Scott" Wenke, and said goodbye to Col. John O. Griffin in a change of command ceremony on April 5.
full story »April 18, 2008 at 9:55AM AKST
Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and several national programs are partnering to collect additional data in an effort to better understand an atmospheric condition dubbed Arctic haze.
full story »April 11, 2008 at 8:23AM AKST
Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich hasn’t announced he’ll run for U.S. Senate, but incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is already asking him to wage an issue-focused campaign free of “smear tactics and attack politics."
full story »April 10, 2008 at 9:21AM AKST
The Interior Department has agreed to decide by February whether the rare yellow-billed loon should be listed under the Endangered Species Act, according to a written statement from the Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »April 08, 2008 at 9:29AM AKST
BP and ConocoPhillips have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline. The pipeline will move approximately four billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets, and will be the largest private sector construction project ever built in North America, according to a written statement from the companies.
full story »April 08, 2008 at 9:07AM AKST
The Bush Administration today took the first step toward opening up 5.6 million acres in the Bering Sea off Alaska to oil and gas leasing. The proposal, published in today’s Federal Register by the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service, would allow oil development in an area north of the Aleutian Islands near Bristol Bay that has been designated critical habitat for the North Pacific right whale, according to a written statement from the Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »April 07, 2008 at 8:12AM AKST
The Alaska Humanities Forum is offering a total of $1 million to projects that explore statehood.
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